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It looks like Verizon's about to double up on double data. According to the Los Angeles Times, Big Red is about to reintroduce the double data promotion that first rolled out in November, and came to a close at year's end. Under the offer, customers signing up for a 4G...

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UK mobile retailer Phones4u has launched its new Just Update My Phone (JUMP) tariff for UK consumers that allows customers to potentially upgrade their handset every six months by splitting the handset and network cost for ownership of their device. Phones4u will allow customers to take out two separate rolling...

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Nokia's latest Windows Phone addition might not stack up to the polycarbonate glory of its forebears, but at this price, it's hard to complain that much. While the reduced RAM specification is proving tricky with some apps, the Lumia 610 has some strong points, arriving with WiFi tethering out...

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If you thought Coinstar was through making industry rattling announcements today, you were wrong. After taking the wraps off its joint venture with Verizon, now the company has announced it'll be taking over NCR's entertainment division for $100 million. That includes DVD kiosks, retailer contracts and an inventory of...

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T-Mobile USA yesterday announced its plans to begin work with Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks to roll out LTE service in 2013, taking advantage of spectrum it obtained from AT&T last week following the failed merger of the two carriers. But perhaps more importantly for iPhone users, T-Mobile's network improvements...

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Remember NetZero? Today the company announced that it's launching NetZero 4G Mobile Broadband, a wireless service rolling out in 80 US cities and offering value-priced monthly data plans without activation fees, contracts, commitments or overage charges. Customers can chose between two levels of service -- Lightspeed (up to 1Mbps...

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We said it was coming soon, and the Dark Knight-themed WinPho hasn't disappointed. Phones 4u has just announced that pre-ordered laser-etched Lumia 900s will be delivered on June 1st; that's this Friday. Off-contract pricing is pegged at £600, although multiple contracts are also available from the UK retailer. There...

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The House of Representatives yesterday passed a bill that will enable users to keep track of federal spending online, in an effort to enhance government transparency. Known as the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA), the bill calls for the creation of an independent body to archive and store...

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It's no secret that some people take their mobile OSes very personally — just as your parents weren't likely to buy you both a Super Nintendo and a Sega Genesis, you're probably not going to take out multiple phone contracts, and as such you may need validation that you...

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Right on the heels of the announcement that it will be partnering with Verizon for a "streaming-video venture," Redbox has revealed it will be expanding its physical footprint by acquiring all of the entertainment assets of rival NCR Corporation. In the deal, worth up to $100 million, Redbox will...

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New ComScore numbers show that an iPhone owner is far more likely to use his phone's Wi-Fi functionality than an Android owner is. In the US, 71% of iPhone owners use both cellular and Wi-Fi connections while a mere 32% of Android owners make use of both. It's even...

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The folks at Mountain View have worked with the well regarded designers at Cuban Council before, but now Google is taking the partnership one step further by hiring several of the firm's employees. The search giant has acquired the contracts of a number of the company's designers explicitly to...

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No fewer than five regional carriers have announced they will be stocking the iPhone on April 20, with a sixth reported to be following suit. Alaska Communications, GCI, nTelos Wireless, Appalachian Wireless, and MTA (Matanuska Telephone Association) Solutions will all be undercutting the big three US networks by $50...

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US mobile operator Verizon has today released details of the shared data plans it first announced earlier this year The new Share Everything plans will be available from 28 June, and will offer unlimited voice minutes, unlimited text, video and picture messaging and a single data allowance for up to...

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Hundreds of ISPs all over the world limit and restrict BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer traffic on their networks, and Europe is no exception. A new EU report sheds light on how common these practices are. The report was initiated in 2011 following requests from the European Commission addressed to BEREC,...

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Folks in Canada using Samsung's Smart lineup of home theater equipment have a new app to be excited about, thanks in part to Cineplex Entertainment. The two companies have teamed up for a video-on-demand app, dubbed Cineplex Store, which will allow owners of "select models of Samsung's Smart TVs,...

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Two things surprised us in the last few days: first, NetZero still exists. This is the company with ubiquitous ads for its dial-up Internet service in the early 2000s (and it, in fact, still sells dial-up). Second, that company is entering a new product arena: mobile hotspots. The new...

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We've talked a few times about the ridiculously unsupported and unsupportable claim by Robert Levine that the "tech industry" (by which he means "Google") is somehow destroying culture by "free riding" on content. There are so many things wrong with this argument that it would take an entire book to...

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We knew Nokia's limited edition Lumia 900 handset was heading to the UK soon, but Phones4U is now taking pre-orders with an expected delivery date of June 1st. The branded Lumia 900, complete with a Batman logo laser-etched into its body, will go on sale for £599.99 SIM-free or...

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Much as U.S. wireless carriers would like to reduce the high subsidies they pay on Apple’s iPhone, there’s little chance that they’ll do so anytime soon. Why? They’re far too worried about what would happen to their customer retention rates if they did so. “We continue to believe carriers would...

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The advertising giant WPP continues its strategy to build up its digital business through acquisitions: today Possible Worldwide, a WPP-owned digital agency that has strong operations in emerging markets, announced that it has purchased Fortune Cookie, a 190-person, UK-based firm with operations also in Poland, the U.S. and Australia. Financial...

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Sky is going online and ditching the contracts... sort of. The UK TV provider is launching a new service called Now TV that will take on more established properties like Lovefilm and Netflix. The streaming video service will initially be available on OS X, Windows and Android with iOS...

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AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega had hinted that they were coming, but today the US operator has announced its new Mobile Share plans, allowing customers to combine up to ten devices to a shared data plan and make it easier to manage data, calls and texts. AT&T says that existing...

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The new user contracts that Sina Weibo instituted in May are great for keeping anti-government speech off of the popular microblogging service, but corporations and individuals sick of being criticized on the web have to take matters into their own hands. Chinese search giant Baidu told the press it...

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The European Commission has contacted 13 optical drive manufacturers suspected of being involved in a five-year bid-rigging cartel, informing them of an investigation into what the Commission terms "one of the most serious breaches of EU antitrust rules." According to the EC statement, the manufacturers may have deliberately coordinated...

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Apple is still on track to release its next iPhone in October, says Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster in a new note this morning. And when the phone is launched, it's going to be a really big freaking deal. Munster says the next iPhone "will represent the biggest consumer electronics...

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Several of the big-six publishers are refusing to sign new annual contracts with Amazon. While that could result in their “buy” buttons being turned off, it is more likely for now that the feud will result in less promotion of big-six publishers’ titles on the site. The news was first...

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The Adobe Reader app for iOS and Android now includes the incredibly helpful ability to e-sign PDF documents with your finger — and get this, it’s free. One thing I absolutely hate is the process of getting sent a document and be expected to quickly print, sign, scan, and...

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The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission has approved a proposal to deploy Square payments technology in 30 taxicabs as part of a test phase. VeriFone Systems Inc. and Creative Mobile Technologies LLC currently hold contracts to power credit card payments in more than 13,000 cabs across the city,...